


Revolting and misogynistic elements masquerading as a love story. There is a dissertation’s worth of repellent, sexist themes in this book: the ejaculate issue the transition of a woman into a monster with sexual awakening a woman sucking the life out of a man, a literal succubus a man being sexually drawn to, but also reviling the object of his affections because a relationship will imprison him and take his power forgiveness of male mistreatment because he can’t help it the saintly, redemptive female lessons in love that not all succubi (women) are the same, you just need to meet the right one and so on.

She shows remarkable forbearance and forgiveness. He really freaks out whenever she takes his precious bodily fluids. Chloe is his fated mate, he is drawn to and disgusted by her simultaneously. The werewolf hero, Uilliam, has childhood sexual abuse trauma associated with an exploitative succubus (which is apparently not a redundant statement), so he hates the entire species. She got very sick about two-thirds of the way through the book. If the ejaculate comes from an unwilling male, she will sicken and die as it changes into “venom”. Chloe is a succubus who feeds on ejaculate. You read those words correctly and in the right order. The heroine, Chloe, thinks she is a human, but learns she is actually transforming into an immortal succubus whose sustenance comes from ejaculate. I read it to see what could be so bad on the “Kresley Cole Is Atrocious” scale that my friend said it was best left unread. I read about 50% of MacRieve, but you’ll see why I’m counting the experience as a whole book, maybe two.
